Guilty Gear XX-Posed

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More literal than you'd think, but still with a pinch of skin.

By IGN Staff

Guilty Gear X2, or Guilty Gear XX as we may frequently call it by accident, is easily the best-looking 2D game on the market today, and possessed of a wonderfully bizarre design sense. Character designer Daisuke Ishiwatari has somehow managed to acquire himself completely free rein, with seemingly no limitations on his personal theater of the bizarre. As fans of the series, we would of course have it no other way -- the weirder these games get, the better.

To display some particularities of Guilty Gear's sense of humor, we decided to compile a small archive of artwork and animation her -- not fighting moves or magical attacks, but poses. There are some great fight intro and win poses in this game, especially for the four new characters joining the cast, and they deserve their own little spotlight. So, without further ado (and click the images to see movies of each)...

Fatal Duel...no, wrong song...

Sol vs. Ky, the game's typical rivalry thing (see also Ken/Ryu, Kyo/Iori, Rock/Terry, Haohmaru/Genjuro, and all that other crap). To be perfectly honest, we see no reason why you would pick the boring sword guys when you could be the hot chick with the guitar and the magic hat, but to each their own.

Prehensile everything.

Zato-One is technically dead, but you wouldn't know by looking at this. If you check the headers on the GUI, though, he's called Eddie now, to signify the complete takeover of his body by the nasty oil-slick thing. It also makes for a niftier Iron Maiden reference. Though Zato is dead, there's still a special intro pose for when Millia faces her old nemesis.

Night already?

Slayer, in case you didn't know, is a vampire as well as a reference to the classic thrash-metal band. His poses tend to revolve around that theme -- here, he climbs out of an odd coffin-shaped portal. Meanwhile, Dizzy is as cute as ever.

We may melt.

These are a little old, both of them likely holdovers from the original Guilty Gear X, but we present them again because we like them so much. Faust sails into the fight on his little umbrella, while May's pet dolphin delivers her anchor. Too cute.

Too cute redux

Sue us, we dig the goofy Jam waitress shtick. This is not quite as cool as that one win pose where she stacks up the plates, but it's not bad, and opposite we have more of May's anchor-delivery gags.

Rock out!

Not quite sure what to make of all this. On the left side, Slayer drains a brief pre-duel snack, while on the right I-no expresses her feelings for her guitar. If nothing else, the opening riffs sound pretty damn good, like all the rest of the guitar licks in this game.